Re: ath/wpa_supplicant/dhclient lost connection

From:

Matthias Schmidt <matthias@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Date:

Tue, 26 Oct 2010 08:17:25 +0200

* elekktretterr@exemail.com.au wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This is on i386/master from about a week ago. It's an SMP laptop. For some
> reason after about 6 hours of running, wireless drops out, but
> wpa_supplicant is still running, and dhclient is running at near 100% CPU.
> It's fixed by kill -HUP wpa_supplicant and dhclient to bring the network
> up and reacquire IP.
>
> Anyone experiencing similar a issue?
Yes, I saw the same behavior on an IBM Thinkpad T42 UP running i386
master. Killing the dhclient helps.
Cheers
Matthias